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To: rjsimmon

Didn’t Lee urge Davis to end slavery to get that monkey off the Confederacy’s back? I may be wrong about this but that’s what I thought.

David Brooks dislikes Lee but still loves the crease in the pants.


8 posted on 07/10/2015 10:20:22 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: "I should like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: miss marmelstein
Didn’t Lee urge Davis to end slavery to get that monkey off the Confederacy’s back?

No. Lee was mildly opposed to slavery at best.

16 posted on 07/10/2015 10:29:29 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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